Forecasting Value & Growth Opportunities: A 2013 Top 10 Interview with Donald W. Hodges, Award Winning Money Manager with 50 Years of Portfolio Management Experience
67 WALL STREET, New York - December 11, 2013 - The Wall Street Transcript has just published its Top Ten Portfolio Manager Interviews of 2013 Report. This special feature contains expert industry commentary through in-depth interviews with highly experienced Portfolio Managers. The full issue is available by calling (212) 952-7433 or via The Wall Street Transcript Online.
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In the following excerpt from the Top Ten Portfolio Manager Interviews of 2013 Report, an experienced money manager discusses his methodology for picking high return, low risk stocks for investors:
TWST: Please provide us with a brief history of Hodges Capital Management.
Mr. Hodges: The history of Hodges Capital Management, in a way, is an extension of my history in the business. I started in the investment business in 1960 as a retail broker with Merrill Lynch in Oklahoma City. I left Merrill in 1968, came to Dallas and was involved with a small brokerage firm here in Dallas, which later went out of business in the difficult years of 1968, 1969 and 1970. Then I joined Rauscher Pierce, which was a regional retail brokerage firm, and was there about 15 years. I eventually became the President of Rauscher.
My son Craig and I started First Dallas Securities in 1989. Then in 1992, we started our first mutual fund, the Hodges Fund (HDPMX), a multicap "go-anywhere" fund. In 2007, we started a Small Cap fund (HDPSX), because the small-cap portion of our multicap fund was the best-performing part of that fund. We started our small-cap fund almost on a market high in December 2007. As you know, we have had good numbers. It's among the top-rated small-cap funds. We've just completed our five years on December 18.
In September 2009, we started three other highly specific funds: an Equity Income fund (HDPEX), where we invest for income and appreciation; a Blue Chip 25 fund (HDPBX), where we invest in 25 large blue-chip stocks; and then we launched a Pure Contrarian fund (HDPCX), where we only buy things that are out of favor but where we think there is exceptional opportunity for recovery. That is a description of the history and focus of our mutual fund universe.
TWST: You highlighted some of the different funds and strategies. How would you describe your overall investing philosophy?
Mr. Hodges: Clearly, we are bottom up, where our obsession and passion is individual companies...
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